12 Jun 2009 11:07:19 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, June 12 (Reuters) - A gunman killed the head of the Iraqi parliament's biggest Sunni Muslim bloc on Friday, police and a party official said, an assassination which could undermine efforts for sectarian reconciliation in Iraq.
Harith al-Ubaidi was head of the Accordance Front, and also a member of the parliament's human rights committee.
"He was in a mosque. An armed man shot him with a pistol, then threw a grenade at him inside the Al-Shawaf mosque," said Saleem al-Jubouri, a spokesman for the Accordance Front. (Writing by Mohammed Abbas: Editing by Jon Hemming)
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